Vulnerability & Exploit Database

Apple Java security update for CVE-2013-2417

Severity

CVSS

Published

Added

Modified

5

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

April 16, 2013

April 21, 2013

December 11, 2013

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, 6 Update 43 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 41 and earlier; and OpenJDK 6 and 7; allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Networking. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to an information leak involving InetAddress serialization. CVE has not investigated the apparent discrepancy between vendor reports regarding the impact of this issue.